Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82. In 1961, 18 ...

B I R M I N G H A M, Ala., May 12 -- Riding into Montgomery to a hero'swelcome Saturday, Ed Blankenheim said he can still remember thehatred on the faces of the men and women who surrounded and ...

Aboard two buses, 13 men and women, some Negro and some white, set out from Washington, D.C., in early May. They called themselves “Freedom Riders.” They meant to demonstrate that segregated travel on ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Friday, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival began its run of a show about an important piece of Civil Rights history. “We Shall Someday” is a musical that follows three ...

After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in 1961, hundreds more joined the cause. Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound ...